Doubtful. Machines tend to reduce fees and let you keep more of your money. If a few finance guys who don't even understand the crap they are selling get fired and fees are reduced then it's a win.

Great. The entire C-suite can be replaced by an AI and a software engineer. Management task are generally signal processing tasks anyway which AI is good at. The real work is done by the non-management position and AI is not very good at handling those tasks anyway.

Struggling to write software gives you design intuition. Learning to code is not the end goal. It's learning to design. AI can't barely write code. It is terrible at designing code.

Many software engineers are terrible at design. Every project devolves into a steaming pile ðY'© at some point. AI just accelerates that.

Or.... We overhired due to the cheap money and excessive fiscal stimulus, pulled away the punchbowl and now the party is over.

Many engineers certainly like feeling like they are not another cog in the wheel of the corporate machine. They like feeling like they have purpose and are doing something important.

You can't fix corporate culture with RTO because work from home wasn't the problem. It's the corporate grind that is the problem. You can pay people increasingly ridiculous sums to pretend like it's not the problem, but in reality you're asking them to sell a piece of their soul.

I'm sorry the handicap has suffered as a result of this foolish solution to corporate culture.

We have a new spokesman for right to repair.

Don't forget California is still importing 30% of it's electricity and has insufficient base load capacity for when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Build more nuclear.

Boomers and gen X were exposed to high concentration of lead from leaded gasoline. I'm glad that is over.

I thought it was about the environment. I guess it was really about enriching Democrat donors all along. You won't support it now that the corporation isn't funding Democrats.

Some California high schools have dedicated engineering programs. It depends on how wealthy your community is. The average California high school sucks. They rank about the 40th state nationally quality. Adding a new subject won't help solved the problem. They don't generally teach the existing required subjects well.

It doesn't matter what the state crime rate is. If you compare Austin vs San Francisco or Los Angeles you get a very different picture of California cities. Just like natural disasters, the crime problems are local. San Diego on the other hand is pretty good.

The real problem is the wasteful spending in Sacramento. The well intentioned policies devised there rarely solve any problems and usually create new problems of their own. The legislature is bleeding the state dry and when they run out of funds they set their sights on the next vulnerable tax bracket. Most of the problem come from the aggregate loss of economic opportunities which inevitably increases the demand for more bad policies. These problems have been spreading which is alarming. I'm not sure any part of California is safe.

Austin on the other hand seems to be rolling out the red carpet to attract businesses and entrepreneurs.

I used fixed wireless. This is not mobile wireless. We benchmarked it at about 600mbps down and 300mbps up. I pay for 300mbps symmetric. I believe they are using UWB which requires line of site. I was also told they use a sort of mesh topology to relay the signal. The only problems I've had with connectivity hasn't been related to wireless. It was in the ISP data center.

Return to work is working it's way through the entire stock market. Larry Fink demands it. He's a true authoritarian. We live in a corporate autocracy.

Heat pumps are better than resistive heating is an obvious statement. Heat produced by running the pump is obviously dumped into the system and heats the home. This is 100% efficient. Moving heat from the outside in will naturally add more heat into the home than a simple resistive heater. The problem is maintenance costs. heat pumps are also limited in the amount of current it can draw, so backup heat sources are required.

There is also loss converting fossil fuels to electricity. It's more efficient to burn it directly in your home for heat.

Pixel devices stop charging at about 80% if they are continuously charging for days on end. I'm not sure if iOS devices protect batteries in the same fashion.